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+ Application Opening: Tuesday, January 13, 2026

+ Application Filing Deadline: Friday, January 30, 2026

+ Recruitment ID:  RTF0161965/ TEX-5602-161966

+ Annual Salary: $126,646 - $187,226

APPOINTMENT TYPE: Exempt: This position is excluded by the Charter from the competitive Civil Service examination process and shall serve at the discretion of the Appointing Officer. The duration of the appointment shall not exceed 36 months.

WHO ARE WE?

San Francisco Public Utilities Commission (SFPUC) (https://youtu.be/inc4CF4VKFE)

Headquartered in San Francisco, we have 2,300 employees operating across eight counties serving more than 2.7 million customers in the San Francisco Bay Area – 24 hours per day, 365 days per year.

Our Mission: To provide our customers with high quality, efficient, and reliable water, power, and wastewater services in a manner that values environmental and community interests and sustains the resources entrusted to our care.

Our Vision: We are an innovative utility leader, recognized for excellent results in service, safety, stewardship, and inclusiveness.

We are an award-winning and industry-leading utilities organization committed to our customers, community interests, and the environment. To learn more about our organization, please visit our website at https://www.sfpuc.gov.

We are proud of our infrastructure and programs, but most importantly, we value our highly qualified and dedicated workforce which ensures that this vision becomes a reality.

To learn more about working at the SFPUC, visit our career site at https://www.sfpuc.gov/about-us/careers-sfpuc

Project: Hetch Hetchy Renewal and Replacement Program

Under the direction of the Renewal & Replacement (R&R) Manager, the 5602 position will serve as the Job Manager over multiple Hetch Hetchy Water and Power (HHWP) R&R projects that were approved in the HHWP 10-year Capital Improvement Plan (CIP). Following established project management policies and procedures, the 5602 Renewal & Replacement Jobs Specialist will plan, develop, construct, and commission multidisciplinary capital improvement projects within the HHWP Division.

Essential Functions:

+ Facilitate the job scope development, prepare business justifications supporting the fiscal appropriations, prepare Construction Management Plans, initiate, and manage professional service and construction task orders, prepare weekly and monthly job status reports, oversee construction and commissioning quality assurance, and thoroughly document completed projects through closeout processes.

+ Develops, maintains, and forecasts monthly and multi-year job cost plans based on the job work breakdown structure.

+ Develops, maintains, and forecasts Critical Path Method (CPM) schedules based on the job work breakdown structure.

+ Develops Job Order Contract task orders using existing construction contracts.

+ Coordinates water conveyance and power outage needs with Hetch Hetchy managers.

+ Identifies operational constraints and develops, evaluates, or recommends policies and procedures to improve operations, mitigate risks, and decrease costs.

+ Writes a variety of documents including reports; work plans; general correspondence; project and job descriptions; operating procedures and policy recommendations; meeting minutes; documentation of forecast methodologies and model assumptions; reports that explain schedule and cost variances and trends, provide cost effective recommendations to mitigate adverse variances and to support negotiation of change order costs with contractors; and other types of written documents as needed to support the diverse work activities assigned to this class.

+ Class 5602 Utility Specialist performs other related duties as required.

Applicants must meet the minimum qualification requirement by the final filing date unless otherwise noted.

Education: Possession of a baccalaureate degree from an accredited college or university preferably with major coursework in Law, Engineering, Environmental Studies, Natural Resources, Computer Science, Business Administration, Mathematics, Statistics, Economics, or other field related to the utility business;

AND,

Experience: Four (4) years of verifiable journey-level work experience in one or more of the following areas: planning, scheduling, cost estimating and resource projecting for mid to large scale projects; water supply/infrastructure management and planning; power operations planning and scheduling; analysis, interpretation and application of utility contracts and regulations in either water, power (electric and/or natural gas), telecommunications, or a wastewater/clean water program; utility market and environmental analysis and planning; power supply and transmission rates and contracts; generation, transmission or distribution planning and design; or long-term utility systems planning.

Substitution: Additional qualifying experience may be substituted for the degree requirement on a year-for-year basis.

Desirable Qualifications: The stated desirable qualifications may be considered at the end of the selection process when candidates are referred for hiring

+ Working knowledge of mission critical facilities

+ Working knowledge of Project Management fundamentals

+ Ability to exercise judgment, decisiveness, and creativity in designing, planning, troubleshooting and integration of a variety of industrial communications systems.

+ Ability to effectively communicate, coordinate and schedule the execution of project tasks.

+ Ability to establish good working relationships with coworkers and project stakeholders.

Verification of Education and Experience:

Every application is reviewed to ensure that you meet the minimum qualifications as listed in the job ad. Please review our articles on Employment Application and Minimum Qualifications (https://sfdhr.org/recruitment-details#qualifications)  and Verification of Experience and/or Education (https://sfdhr.org/recruitment-details#verification)  for considerations taken when reviewing applications.

Applicants may be required to submit verification of qualifying education and experience at any point during the recruitment and selection process.

Note: Falsifying one’s education, training, or work experience or attempted deception on the application may result in disqualification for this and future job opportunities with the City and County of San Francisco.

All work experience, education, training and other information substantiating how you meet the minimum qualifications must be included on your application by the filing deadline. Information submitted after the filing deadline will not be considered in determining whether you meet the minimum qualifications. Applications completed improperly may be cause for ineligibility, disqualification or may lead to lower scores.

+ Information About the Hiring Process (https://careers.sf.gov/knowledge/process/)

+ Conviction History

+ Employee Benefits Overview  (https://careers.sf.gov/benefits/)

+ Equal Employment Opportunity (https://www.sf.gov/what-equal-employment-opportunity-and-how-file-claim)

+ Disaster Service Worker (https://sfdhr.org/disaster-service-workers)

+ ADA Accommodation

+ Veterans Preference (https://sfdhr.org/recruitment-details#veteranspreference)

+ Right to Work

+ Copies of Application Documents (https://sfdhr.org/recruitment-details#copies)

+ Diversity Statement

Applicants will receive a confirmation email from [email protected] that their online application has been received in response to every announcement for which they file. Applicants should retain this confirmation email for their records. Failure to receive this email means that the online application was not submitted or received.

HOW TO APPLY

Applications for City and County of San Francisco jobs are only accepted through an online process. Visit https://careers.smartrecruiters.com/CityAndCountyOfSanFrancisco1/ and begin the application process.

+ Select the “I’m Interested” button and follow instructions on the screen

Applicants may be contacted by email about this recruitment and, therefore, it is their responsibility to ensure that their registered email address is accurate and updated. Also, applicants must ensure that email from CCSF is not blocked on their computer by a spam filter. To prevent blocking, applicants should set up their email to accept CCSF mail from the following addresses (@sfgov.org, @sfdpw.org, @sfport.com, @flysfo.com, @sfwater.org, @sfdph.org, @asianart.org, @sfmta.com, @sfpl.org, @dcyf.org, @first5sf.org, @famsf.org, @ccsf.edu, @smartalerts.info, and @smartrecruiters.com).

Applicants will receive a confirmation email from [email protected] that their online application has been received in response to every announcement for which they file. Applicants should retain this confirmation email for their records. Failure to receive this email means that the online application was not submitted or received.

Job Analyst Information: If you have any questions regarding this recruitment or application process, please contact the job analyst, Anna Owens, at [email protected].

The City and County of San Francisco encourages women, minorities and persons with disabilities to apply. Applicants will be considered regardless of their sex, race, age, religion, color, national origin, ancestry, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition (associated with cancer, a history of cancer, or genetic characteristics), HIV/AIDS status, genetic information, marital status, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, military and veteran status, or other protected category under the law.